The first race this year was Länsiväyläjuoksu. I had this race on my race schedule now for a while, mainly because I knew that the bay area where the track would go through is really nice. Preparations went quite ok and I managed to do some exercising beforehand.
The race with its 17km was more or less what I was aiming for: not too short, but also not a half-marathon.
After parking my car in Otaniemi, I quickly found my way to the starting area. Was kind of weird for once being on the campus, on a Saturday morning, and it was not because I had a party the evening before :-).
After the race started, I managed to pace myself quite well.. After all I didn’t want to hit the wall just after the first few kilometers. We ran first away from the campus, through some,residential area in Tapiola before reaching the bay area which I like so much. From there on we followed more or less the shoreline all the way back to Otaranta. I somehow underestimated the last few kilometers running over the small islands and and struggled myself to the finish line. In the end my final time was 1hr and 34mins. All in all, I was quite happy with my result.
